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Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits

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  1. andsoitis · · focus · HN ↗
    > to build daily reading habits among a phone-first population

    Reading is fundamental.

    EDIT: Other skills and habits that you can then build on reading: critical thinking, reasoning, detection and handling own biases, numeracy, financial literacy, and more. All these dimensions are manipulated via phones and the apps on them, so you need a firewall.

    Also: writing. Cursive writing.

    1. aduwah · · focus · HN ↗
      You being downvoted is just sad
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      2. xethos · · focus · HN ↗
        Stating a truth is not adding to the conversation though. A little sad, sure, but grandparent's comment is barely even a building block to kick off a wider conversation, let alone thoughtful or additive on its own.

        Maybe it doesn't deserve to be on the bottom, dead, but something this basic certainly doesn't deserve to be showered in upvotes

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